The Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop Preps "Jagged yet Stately" Synth Album

In addition to releasing eight albums with the Sea and Cake, frontman Sam Prekop has also found time to release two solo albums and make forays into both painting and photography. On September 7, the multitalented artist will release his third album, Old Punch Card.

In a press release, Prekop said, "This record is pretty much unlike anything else I've done." It was reportedly inspired by "early music concrete and electronic music, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Nuno Canavarro, Raymond Scott, David Behrman, and free improvisation."

Pekop took a structure-less approach to songwriting, resulting in "a beautifully noisy, jagged yet stately album of synthesizer music." There are no vocals or beats and only one of the nine tracks features a guitar; instead, most of the sounds were created with a modular synthesizer.

With the focus on texture and dynamics rather than rhythm or lyrics, the tracks took "a travelogue form, all of them starting somewhere only to end somewhere else entirely." The collection was recorded at home and composed by piecing together snippets of interesting synth noise.

If all this sounds a bit confusing, Prekop says the closest soundalike is the abstract intro to the Sea and Cake's cover of "Sound and Vision" by David Bowie. Listen to it in the embedded video below.

The Sea and Cake will be hitting the road this fall for a Canada-friendly tour with Broken Social Scene. The dates are below the tracklist.